Improvement in hand-rakes



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` Letters Patent N .94,118, dated August 24, 1869il IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-RAKES.

Y The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it muy concern Beit known that I, DANIEL JOHNSTON, ofSulphnr Springs, in the county of Crawford, and in the State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hand-Rakes; and do hereby' decla-rc that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference heilig had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

'lhc nature of my invention consists in a malleable clamp by which the head and handle of a hand-rake are connected and can he removed at will and replaced, by which the rake is made nlnch less liable to break than the common rake where the head is bored and handle passing,r through. It also dispenses with thc necessity for hows, as in the common rake.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention apport-aine to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, which form' a part of this specification, and which are a perspective view of my invention.

-A represents the head of' a hand-rake, in which the teeth B B are inserted.

Before the teeth are inserted into the head A, I place a clamp, C, around the `middle of the saine.

This clamp, which is held in its proper place by the two centre teeth, is provided with a socket, l), in which the handle of the rake is placed.

By this means the handle can be easily removed and 

